Russian German model Jana Beller was born 27 October 1990 in the Siberian city of Omsk, then Soviet Union. Her parents left Russia for Germany when the girl was eight…
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Russian supermodel Inna Zobova
Miss Russia 1994, actress, Russian supermodel Inna Zobova was born October 1, 1976 in the Moscow suburb of Khimki. Her father worked as a manager of civil aviation, and her…
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Legendary Russian translator Pyotr Patrushev
Australia based Russian translator Pyotr Patrushev is a truly legendary person, who escaped a death sentence by swimming from Russia to Turkey across the Black Sea border in 1962. Pyotr…
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Russian sculptor Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy
Russian sculptor Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy was born in Italy on February 15, 1866. The illegitimate son of a Russian emigre, Prince Peter Petrovich Trubetskoy (1822-1892). Prince, who had two wives…
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Traditional Russian Headdress Collection
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibits Samples of Russian applied art, and a significant part of it Traditional Russian Headdresses. Things out “Assembly of Russian…
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Russian Space wedding. Yuri Malenchenko
Russian Space wedding. Yuri Malenchenko. Some brides worry on their wedding day that the groom won’t turn up. But Ekaterina Dmitrieva arrived at her wedding ceremony knowing that her future…
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